‘He’s one of us’: South Holland church celebrates bragging rights as Pope Leo XIV’s de facto home parish

‘He’s one of us’: South Holland church celebrates bragging rights as Pope Leo XIV’s de facto home parish

Lionor Zamora went to St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church for decades, sending all eight of her children there for school. She has lived in Dolton for more than 30 years and watched both her church close and people move out of the suburb she calls home. The 84-year-old could not believe it when she heard that the new pope was from the same parish she belonged to for years. Her son was in the second grade when Robert Francis Prevost, now P…

Chicagoans pack pews to celebrate South Side son Pope Leo XIV: 'It's fantastic'

Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.